Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b84536dc09ac96c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.0 KB Created: 2020-08-12 01:23:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b71cdfe3fb1e5622914c63a6d224f586 SHA-1: 7beaee7a13b2b6ea54e8d07f567922dc20f0cfda SHA-256: 8b84536dc09ac96c40e60c67f4b46ef9a1279dd0b43ac833ee8f7af93ea8efb1
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a large link farm. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.ru, which is used in conjunction with keywords to potentially deceive users into downloading malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous malicious links is sufficient evidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=simple+algorithm+examples+pdf
    • http://files.kathygaulke.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874122/33698.pdf
    • http://files.cprsd2.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607131/6576711.pdf
    • http://files.abovethecloudsretreats.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438128/3729752.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8212/8291/files/95495691200.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3192/8740/files/ominous_octet_defronzo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6623/7852/files/bisagolafu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7378/8321/files/biochemistry_book_by_u_satyanarayana.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3438/5303/files/87962743461.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6454/0840/files/22563374844.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4933/7500/files/rixedepefosoraxumojode.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8900/2653/files/raronalaxunejapaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6033/9623/files/jexakeratosuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3637/6231/files/70520558223.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0061/9423/files/mosaicos_6th_edition_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4025/0775/files/70570616894.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/surorut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9741/5077/files/77648323809.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00009349.bin
cc62c6c9a102515b433faacff1dbcc8b0af54f0758dcd9eebcd87ec157cb5f35
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9349 5624 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a641.bin
bb105e95219a14e1a178f057baa2b7a72f96a49d7b61c6210d2c35cc9466dab1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA641 10704 bytes